arXiv AI

An Exam for Active Observers

arXiv:2607. 16165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human vision is a closed loop: gaze is continuously redirected by intermediate hypotheses rather than a single snapshot.

arXiv AI
Jul 31

See2Think: Do Multimodal Models Really Use Intermediate Visual States?

arXiv:2607. 26769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models increasingly use sketches, annotations, tools, and intermediate images during reasoning, but it remains unclear whether they truly rely on these visual states.

By Siyu Yan, Zhuoran Yan, Haiying Xu, Panhao Zhou, Jingyu Chen, Chenhao Ji, Shuo Cao, Yongheng Zhang, Haoze Liu, Siyu Zhang, Xiwen Gu, Yihao Liu, Alex Jinpeng Wang
arXiv AI
5d ago

EgoMonth: A Month-Level Egocentric Video Benchmark for Long-Term Spatiotemporal Memory

arXiv:2608. 13113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have led to substantial progress in video understanding, accompanied by a growing number of long video benchmarks.

By Weitao Chen, Hu Jiaxin, Xie Tianyidan, Yang Li, Yuyi Qian, Banghao Xu, Ziheng Tang, Shenyi Wang, Mingyue Yu, Duo Li, Jiacheng Shi, Gao Wang, Zhan Xu, Zhicheng Qiu, Xuanfu Li, Jian Yang, Lanjun Wang, Zili Yi
arXiv AI
Jun 9

ACTIVE-o3: Empowering MLLMs with Active Perception via Pure Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2505. 21457v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Active vision, also known as active perception, refers to actively selecting where and how to look in order to gather task-relevant information.

By Muzhi Zhu, Hao Zhong, Canyu Zhao, Zongze Du, Mingyu Liu, Zheng Huang, Anzhou Li, Hao Chen, Cheng Zou, Jingdong Chen, Ming Yang, Chunhua Shen
arXiv AI
Jun 2

StemBind: When MLLMs Get Lost Between Rules and Instances in Abstract Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 00148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often know the rule but pick the wrong answer: on abstract visual reasoning (AVR) tasks, a model can describe what it sees and name the underlying pattern, yet still fail to choose the matching candidate.

By Xixiang He, Baiqi Wu, Xingming Li, Ao Cheng, Qiyao Sun, Xuanyu Ji, Qingyong Hu
arXiv AI
Jun 3

MUSE: A Unified Agentic Harness for MLLMs

arXiv:2606. 03005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite rapid progress, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still fail on tasks that humans solve effortlessly, such as navigating a grid maze from a screenshot or selecting the correct puzzle piece.

By Jianglin Lu, Hailing Wang, Xu Ma, Qihua Dong, Mingyuan Zhang, Yizhou Wang, Yun Fu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Pix2Fact: When Vision Is Not Enough -- Benchmarking Fine-Grained VQA with Web Verification on High-Resolution Real-World Scenes

arXiv:2602. 00593v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite progress on general tasks, vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with challenges that demand both fine-grained visual grounding and external knowledge, a synergy overlooked by existing benchmarks that evaluate these abilities in isolation.

By Yifan Jiang, Cong Zhang, Bofei Zhang, Qiaofeng Zheng, Yifan Yang, Bingzhang Wang, Yew-Soon Ong
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Moment-Video: Diagnosing Temporal Fidelity of Video MLLMs on Momentary Visual Events

arXiv:2606. 02522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress on general and long-form video understanding, yet their ability to preserve brief answer-critical visual evidence remains underexplored.

By Xiaolin Liu, Yilun Zhu, Xiangyu Zhao, Xuehui Wang, Yan Li, Xin Li, Haoyu Cao, Xing Sun, Shaofeng Zhang, Xu Yang, Zhihang Zhong, Xue Yang